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True. Rings of Power is the WORST offender. I counted the amount of times the elves use the word "very". Over 30 times elves/dwarves/numenoreans use phrases like "the very tears", "the very Gods", "the very evil", "the very banner", etc.
The Rings of Power writers use it in hamfisted ways to add archaic emphasis because they have no other writing tools in their box. It just smacks of hack writers trying to make their dialogue sound archaic.
(yes, Tolkien uses it but in the proper way -- denoting the extreme essence of the object, not just as an unpracticed way of providing emphasis)
"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." ~ Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
"Hail, Gurthang, for thou art all men's bane & all men's lives fain wouldst thou drink, knowing no lord or faith save the hand that wields thee. Slay me therefore, for life is a curse, & all my days are creeping foul, & all my deeds are vile & all I love is dead." ~Túrin Turambar
"The map is hell! I have not been as careful as I should in keeping track of distances. I think a large scale map simply reveals all the chinks in the armour--besides being obliged to differ somewhat from the printed small scale version, which was semi-pictorial." ~Tolkien, 1955
Mine fell apart after a couple of years.... My favorite edition up until then.
The worst Tolkien books ever published (or close to), sorry.
Do not judge a book by its cover.
The ‘Millennium Edition’ breaks the Lord of the Rings up into the seven-volume form Tolkien had in mind, using titles he suggested:
1. The Ring Sets Out
2. The Ring Goes South
3. The Treason of Isengard
4. The Ring Goes East
5. The War of the Ring
6. The End of the Third Age
7. Appendices
Great idea. Terrible execution by HarperCollins. They look beautiful in photographs and even on a shelf. But in person they are cheaply bound and like I said probably the worst of all the hardcovers in the catalogue (though all Tolkien books published from about 1998 to 2001 are terribly cheap bindings). The slipcase itself is prone to splitting, and the paper is meh.
They are mathoms, one collects and keeps purely because they represent a celebration of Tolkien and are the only hardcover in this seven book format.
I keep using the word terrible. At least the content remains the same, beautiful.
"For morning came... and the hosts of Mordor wailed, and terror took them. Then all the host of Rohan burst into song, & they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, & the sound of their singing that was fair & terrible came even into the City." ~ Return of the King
His names are brilliantly appropriate; the tongues he has devised for the elves & orcs perfectly express, just by their rhythms & phonemic systems, the natures of these races; his style is full of joy, the joy that follows the making of a perfect gesture." ~ D. Barr, NY Times
"Also I saw [. Lewis] and . [Charles Williams] from about to , but can recollect little of the feast of reason and flow of soul, partly because we all agree so." ~ . Tolkien, in a letter to Christopher Tolkien, November 1944
"I have not put in [to The Lord of th Rings], or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults and practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism." ~ . Tolkien, December 1963
"Hill. Yes, that was it. But it is a hasty word for a thing that has stood here ever since this part of the world was shaped." ~ Treebeard
"Gandalf as Ring-Lord would have been far worse than Sauron. He would remain 'righteous', but self-righteous. He would continue to rule & order things for 'good' & the benefit of his subjects according to his wisdom (which would have remained great)." ~ . Tolkien, Sept 1963
"In the cosmogonic myth Manwë is said to be 'brother' of Melkor, that is they were coëval and equipotent in the mind of the Creator. Melkor became the rebel, and the Diabolos of these tales, who disputed the kingdom of Arda with Manwë." ~ . Tolkien, October 1958
"There lies the Mirrormere, deep Kheled-zaram!" said Gimli sadly. "I remember that he said: 'May you have joy of the sight! But we cannot linger there.' Now long shall I journey ere I have joy again. It is I that must hasten away, and he that must remain." ~ Gimli
"I think that The Hobbit can be seen to begin in what might be called a more 'whimsy' mode, & in places even more facetious, & move steadily to a more serious or significant, & more consistent & historical... But I regret much of it all the same." ~ . Tolkien, April 1959
"I do not like giving 'facts' about myself other than 'dry' ones (which are quite as relevant to my books as any other more juicy details). I object to the trend in criticism, with its excessive interest in the details of the lives of authors & artists." ~. Tolkien, Oct 1958
"I am not happy about the title 'the Two Towers'. It must if there is any real reference in it to Vol II refer to Orthanc & the Cirith Ungol. But since there is so much made of the opposition of the Dark Tower & Minas Tirith, that seems misleading." ~ . Tolkien, January 1954
"I am neither disturbed nor surprised at the limitations of my 'fame'. There are lots of people in Oxford who have never heard of me, let alone of my books. But I can repay many of them with equal ignorance: neither willful nor contemptuous, simply accidental." ~JRR Tolkien,1965
"A light starts--lixte se leoma ofer landra fela--& there is a sound of music; but the darkness & its hostile offspring lie ever in wait for the torches to fail & the voices to cease. Grendel is maddened by the sound of harps." ~. Tolkien, Beowulf: The Monsters & The Critics